English to Afrikaans Meaning :: porcelain

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Noun(1) ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic

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(1) a collection of Chinese porcelain(2) Finally, was the cup made of bone china or ordinary porcelain ?(3) She dipped the tips of her fingers into the scented water that had been laid before her, in china and porcelain bowls as white as the cloth upon which all the dishes had been placed.(4) These will include articles of wood, porcelain , jewellery, and a wide variety of gift and handmade items.(5) Auguste Rodin is world famous for his sculpture, but his work as a ceramicist at the Sevres porcelain manufactory is less well known.(6) When Railpen invested in art it bought a wide collection that spanned Chinese porcelain to African tribal paintings.(7) Each is well appointed, with freestanding roll-top cast-iron baths, step-in shower cubicles and Staffordshire porcelain ceramic ware.(8) Wonderful collections of porcelain , pictures and furniture seemed to greet us in every room.(9) These grandly baroque pieces in polished red stoneware are precursors of the white porcelain that was to follow in the 1730s and 40s.(10) The factory continues to make porcelain and bone china today.(11) On the cloth I set porcelain bowls and dished out the first course.(12) She is a writer who energizes whatever she gives her attention to, an orange shriveling in the sun, an ink stain on a table, the white porcelain of a salad bowl.(13) The majority of work is stoneware and porcelain tableware.(14) There in a small blue and white porcelain dish sat the scarab ring.(15) Today there is not a single large collection of Vincennes-Sevres porcelain that does not contain pieces painted by Dodin.(16) The imperfections are then cleaned off with tools and the casting is put in the kiln at 1225 cone 6 and becomes vitrified porcelain .

Related Words

(1) porcelain tile ::

porselein teël

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1. porcelain ::

porselein

2. glaze ::

glans

Different Forms

porcelain, porcelains

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